Sartre and Flaubert 1st Edition by Hazel E. Barnes (PDF)

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A critical analysis of Sartre’s three-volume biography of Flaubert tries to determine to what extent it is also an autobiography, novel, and philosophical work

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⭐hazel barnes refers to the original french text, the cited translations in english are her own. interested parties may want to compare her passages with cosman’s english translation. working from sartre’s text, barnes’ citations differ in volume pagination from the translated text, which appears in five volumes, differing from the separation of the french text in three volumes, so the reader of the english translation of The Family Idiot, using Barnes’ book as a guide, will have to do some work to match up the sections to which she refers.barnes provides two invaluable services, she provides an orderly description of sartre’s circuitous though exhilarating thought, and she makes a sound critical argument for the importance of sartre’s Family Idiot for both flaubertian studies and sartrean studies.to her reading of The Family Idiot, barnes brings her readings of flaubert’s correspondence, his voluminous papers and manuscripts, sometimes citing sections to make a critical observation omitted by sartre who was of a different opinion; her remarks on works by sartre, my reading of The Family Idiot sent me back to Being & Nothingness, whereas barnes makes the case that The Family Idiot is a continuation of The Critique of Dialectical Reason; and critical studies of The Family Idiot written by other scholars, each with personal opinions on flaubert and his Madame Bovary.although barnes tends to agree with sartre that anyone who has read the three volumes can surmise what volume four would be like, she does not completely follow Sartre’s remark that the reader of the first three volumes could write the fourth volume, the proposed study of Madame Bovary. her kind exception for the ‘devotees of literature,’ for our angst of omission, the promise never to be realized, by the project cut short too soon, is noted.unlike sartre for whom writing was, his belief in his later years, communication and reciprocity, literature, engagement and revolutionary, that there would come a day when literature would cease to exist, literature by authors, when everyone would be a writer—would that he lived long enough to have seen blogs and social media. barnes writes that ‘He has made good on his promise to describe how a particular person is inserted in his period, how he both reflects and modifies it, how he is a “singular universal.” ‘summing up her study, barnes closes in on laying bare sartre’s obsession with flaubert, by distinguishing the beliefs of sartre concerning literature from those held by flaubert, the writer most unlike him, who sartre not only mentioned in several of his own writings, including pages in Being & Nothingness, but over the years of writing, developed what could be described as empathy for his subject. his obsession grew into a thirty-yearlong unfinished project of thousands of pages which, hushed as it is kept, may be sartre’s masterpiece.

⭐Sartre was a very good novelist. NAUSEA and the first two volumes of his CHEMINS are permanent additions to the corpus of world lit. But as a philosopher and literary critic?BEING AND NOTHINGNESS is, if not unreadable, far from deserving much attention from any serious reader. It may be the philosophical underpinning of his fiction, but it’s not necessary to understand his novels, just as a reader of Stendhal doesn’t have to read Tracy or Bentham to appreciate ROUGE and CHARTREUSE.It’s as a literary critic that Sartre fails most egregiously. His books on Genet and Baudelaire mostly darken counsel, and his exhausting study of Flaubert, which is Hazel E. Barnes subject in the book under review, reads like a private obsession, the FINNEGAN’S WAKE of lit crit.Barnes does a good job of explaining Sartre’s misconceived view, but once you grasp the major points, you can only shrug your shoulders. Sartre disliked the idea of “art for art’s sake”, but to write at such length and in such a convoluted prose style to make his point(s) suggests that too many doses of benzedrine (or the French equivalent) drove him slightly around the bend.No book about Flaubert, if Barnes is basically correct in her interpretation, is less illuminating about F. than this melange from an overheated brain.

⭐I have been a literary abnormality with special attention to changes in American culture in 1950, 1980, and Y2K as the Martin Luther Stonehood of rock and roll. I was born in Iowa with religion as my exposure to active intellect. High school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, exposed me to world history, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, chemistry and physics. Before I went to public school, I was expecting to shine as a comic cosmic genius with intrusive telepathy.Hazel Barnes is familiar with emotional pathologies as cultural forces in fading shambolic social order disasters. Intellect has insight into style that undermines human schemes for understanding a universe in which a desire for something better than sex with body stoners.

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